Humanities
Elise O'Brien
Folklore Graduate Student/ HUM GE
Landscape Architecture Graduate Student
Folklore Program, Humanities Program, Landscape Arch
Email: eliseo@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests: multidisciplinary studies, ecological design, cultural design, people and place
Alex O'Ryan
Graduate Employee, Spanish, MA
Romance Languages
Email: aoryan@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1287
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Second Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Honor O'Sullivan
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: honoro@uoregon.edu
Office: PLC 214
Office Hours: Fall Term 2026:
Monday: 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Wednesday: 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Friday: 9:00 - 10:00 AM
Also available via Zoom by appointment!
Research Interests: Modernism, 20th Century American Literature, the Harlem Renaissance, Surrealism, Affect Theory, Queer Theory, Visual Culture, Film, Comics
HyeRyoung Ok
Associate Teaching Professor
Digital Humanities, Cinema Studies
Email: hok@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7644
Office: 321 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Tuesdays 12-2pm (on Zoom or in-person by appointment)
K Olivar
English Graduate Student / GE
English
Email: kolivar@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1314
Office: 220 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026: Thursdays 12:30-1:30, and by appointment.
Office hours are held via Zoom.
Research Interests: Early Modern / Renaissance Literature, Drama, Disability Studies, Neurodiversity
Leslie Opp-Beckman
Director of Innovative Programs, AEI
American English Institute, Language Teaching Studies
Email: leslieob@uoregon.edu
Yasamin Osqueezadeh
English
Email: yasamino@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Multiethnic Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Southwest Asian Literature
Dorothee Ostmeier
Professor of German, and Folklore and Public Culture
Folklore Program, German & Scandinavian, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: ostmeier@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4145
Office: 204D Agate Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Tue/Thu 1:20 to 2 PM GSH 103 Afterwards Villard until 3:30 PM and by appointment
Research Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th through 20th century
Skyler Outler
Philosophy Graduate Student
Philosophy
Email: soutler@uoregon.edu
Office: Susan Campbell Hall 211, Eugene OR 97403
Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Associate Professor
Comics and Cartoon Studies, IRES, Cinema Studies, Latinx
Email: povalle@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0060
Office: 233 Villard Hall, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Media Studies, Race/Ethnicity, Dance, Mainstream Popular Culture, Media Hairstyles
Lo Owens
ASU4 Faculty Support
Human Physiology, Linguistics, Psychology, Earth Sciences
Email: lowens@uoregon.edu
Office: 936 PLC, 1284 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284